On January 6, 2024, Halle Bailey announced the birth of her son Halo. She successfully kept her pregnancy a secret from the world. She shares Halo with boyfriend rapper Darryl Dwayne Granberry Jr. aka DDG.
On April 16, Halle took to Snapchat to open up about life after her son’s birth. She suffers from severe postpartum depression. She made sure to say she loves her son and is getting the best support from Darryl. She hopes by sharing her story the stigma around depression can lessen.
Halle decided to tell her story after seeing some triggering comments about her family on social media. She is so in love with Halo. "I have severe, severe postpartum [depression], and I don't know if any new moms can relate, but it's to the point where it's really bad, and it's hard for me to be separated from my baby for more than 30 minutes at a time before I start to kind of freak out,” she began.
Halle praised Darryl for being a “present” father and partner. He is the "most amazing daddy in the world." Halle also gushed about Halo.
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"Halo is a miracle. He is perfect. He is beautiful. When I look at him, I cry because of how special he is. The only thing that's been hard for me is feeling normal in my own body," Halle revealed. "I feel like a completely different person. When I look in the mirror, I just feel like I'm in a whole new body. Like, I don't know who I am."
This has not been easy for Halle to navigate. Experiencing PPD first-hand is much different than hearing about it. "Before I had a child and I would hear people talk about postpartum, it would kind of just go in one ear and out the other. I didn't realize how serious of a thing it actually was," the Little Mermaid star explained. "Now going through it, it almost feels like you're swimming in this ocean that's like the biggest waves you've ever felt and you're trying not to drown. And you're trying to come up for air."
Halle stressed this has nothing to do with Halo. "It has nothing to do with my baby. It has everything to do with me and who I am right now," she explained.
Halle wants to remind the public that celebrities are people, too. It is too easy to hide behind a keyboard and write mean things about strangers.
"I guess today I was just triggered — especially [since] social media is just not a good thing to be on when you have postpartum — but I was just really triggered today, especially by seeing some of the things that have been said about me and my family, and the one that I love and the ones that I love,” she explained.
We should all treat each other with kindness and respect. "Even though you may look up to certain people and you think that they are celebrities, and they appear it have it all together, you never know what somebody else is going through, especially someone who just had a baby literally," Halle concluded.
